America the Beautiful
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  • Summary: Who actually benefits from this high-priced journey towards this ideal? Is corporate America’s bottom line so important that it justifies a nation’s psychosis? What are the true costs of our obsession with youth, beauty, and a slender physique? At the heart of “America the Beautiful” is the is the story of Gerren Taylor, a teenager who went from being an innocent 12 year old girl to being one of America’s next top supermodels. As she and her mother head down the windy road to stardom, viewers watch the dichotomy between Gerren's adolescent struggles and her adult “rights of passage” on the catwalks of Marc Jacobs, DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger and other top designers. Her tumultuous quest acts as a mirror to the American psyche, and it becomes apparent how the same beauty that could jump-start her career could ultimately destroy her young life. (First Independent Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    America the Beautiful carries a persuasive message, and is all the more effective because of the level tone that Roberts adopts.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Leba Hertz
    75
    Mostly succeeds in unmasking the flaws of fetishizing skin-deep beauty.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    60
    Often insightful and more than a little depressing, this is a story that only gets uglier as it goes on.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    30
    With so many pointless detours ripping you away, the film feels as lamely digressive as the proverbial one-track guy whose head won't stop turning as each new temptation walks by.

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
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  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. David
    9
    I focused on the message which I felt was very clear.
  2. jaimed
    0
    la pelicula es mala.... simplemente carece de todo sentido posible y la actuacion de jessica simpson da fe que como actriz es una de las peores que he visto...… Expand

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